Pre-allocating key segments

[David R. Conrad]

This was supposed to go out yesterday, but I mistyped the address.

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Piete Brooks <Piete.Brooks at cl.cam.ac.uk> writes:
>I wrote:
>> ... but I still think the
>> prefetching of some more segments would be useful.
>
>I'm seeing calls from calpoly.edu and albany.net taking less than a second.
>Are you **REALLY** worried about wasting that sort of time, when even a single
>segment usually takes a quarter of an hour even on the faster machines ?

Wow, I knew it had been sped up, but I didn't realize...
You've convinced me.  :-)

>[ Getting down to the implementation details
>  1) it would be hard for brloop to know that brutessl is 3/4s done.
>  2) I can't think how to do prefetching in a safe way, and without disc use
>]

Good points.  Never mind the pre-allocation.

Abashed,

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